Category: Articles

The size of rooms can be expanded or even be made to look smaller by the use of floor covering. Color has the ability to add warmth and excitement to an installation. Light and pastel colors show soil while at the same time a darker and brighter colors show lint and debris. Both soil and […]

Selecting the correct floor covering for your installation needs to be done with a lot of thought and a little planning so that you will experience the satisfying performance and enjoyment that you deserve. As you may have experienced with a past purchase, a floor covering that is absolutely perfect for one residence or even […]

Next to a house or automobile, floor covering is one of the largest purchases that many homeowners will ever make.  Like that car or house a floor covering can be a purchase of joy or pain.  A floor covering that is properly specified for the location, in which it is to be used, will add to […]

My father was a chemist in the oil industry. About 1939 his sister’s husband was killed in an automobile accident and my father helped her manage her husbands carpet workroom until it could be sold. Soon after he started his own carpet workroom, which led to him becoming a highly successful person in the floor […]

The Naive Floor Covering Consumer
by Terry Weinheimer 
The kitchen is the hub of the average house.  While preparing a meal we constantly move between the range, sink, and refrigerator.  While using other parts of the house we go back and forth to the kitchen for beverages and snacks.  In many houses a laundry area or bathroom […]

A Shameless Industry - by Terry Weinheimer
Most rational adults recognize the exaggerated marketing techniques used by the magazine sweepstakes industry. Almost monthly you receive mailers announcing that your name has been selected to win a large amount of money. Of course, when you read the small print you will usually understand the difference between being […]